• Dear Jets fans: If your starting quarterback, who has had serious injury problems throughout his career, has to hop off the field because his ankle got twisted almost completely around, and your backup quarterback has to come in, you do NOT, under ANY circumstances, start cheering. Absolutely disgraceful, and I’m ashamed to even be mentioned in the same breath as you.
• At least the Giants game was close, which is more than I can say for the Jets. Ugh.
• I had meant to include this in my last post, but this is the trailer for a movie about Sigur Rós that definitely has me interested. I decided to post the link here, mostly because I can.

I don’t really know why, but for the past few days, I’ve been on a major post-rock kick. It all started when I decided to listen to The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky at school the other day; since then, I’ve listened to all of EITS’ albums a few times, as well as some stuff by Hood and World’s End Girlfriend.

The best explanation of post-rock I’ve heard is something Scot said once that I’m paraphrasing: it sounds like the end of the world is coming. That’s pretty accurate. When I close my eyes and let the music just wash over me, it makes me feel like I’m the last person left on an Earth that will cease to be very soon, but I’m OK with that.

One morning last week, I was driving to school. It was overcast and foggy, and, as it’s the middle of winter, all the trees were bare. It may sound weird, but it was one of the most beautiful mornings I’ve ever seen. That morning gave me the same feeling I get when I hear this music.

Go listen to some of it.

A couple nights ago, I downloaded a leaked version of the new Breaking Benjamin album, Phobia. I’d been looking forward to it for quite some time now.

I first heard of this band when I heard a clip of their first single, “Polyamorous,” on the radio back in…I’d say 2002. I downloaded that song, liked it a lot, and downloaded their first album, Saturate. I listened to it, enjoyed it a lot for a month or so, and then it sort of fell by the wayside as I acquired newer music.

I didn’t hear much about the band for a long time, until sometime in 2004, when I got tickets for myself, my brother, and my cousin to go to an Evanescence concert two years ago. They were headlining the show; Seether, Three Days Grace, and Breaking Benjamin opened, in the opposite of the order I just named them in.

To sum it up, the show just flat-out rocked. However, Breaking Benjamin really put on a hell of a set, in spite of equipment failures and a pretty sparse crowd. They’d just released their second album, We Are Not Alone, and I hadn’t heard any of it prior to their set. I liked what I heard, so I acquired that one as well.

During the rest of that summer, 2004, both their albums got a lot of airplay, both at home and in my car. They became sort of the soundtrack for the rest of my summer, and got me through some rougher times.

It was kind of ironic, to me at least, that I downloaded Phobia two years to the day after that concert back in 2004.

It’s good stuff.